How tall are y'all and what's your ancestry?

[TnRiver46]

4 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

I worked some in Appalachia, teaching coal miners' kids. 

 

"Don't go down that holler," I was told more than once and they weren't kidding. 

I been in them hollers. Seent a wampus cat 

[herder]

Tall enough that my feet still reach the ground! German and English from what I've been told.

Must explain my love of beer 

[DitchPanda]

German and English mostly....believe there's a little touch of Native on my dads side. I'm 6'3"1\2.

[Bankbeater]

5'9".  My dad's family is English and Scottish.  My mom's family is German, and Native American.

[LonnieP]

5’11 English/Scottish and some Cherokee thrown in the mix

[BigAngus752]

I'm 6'4 my son 6'7.  My sister is 6'2, her daughter 6'5.  Our parents refused to discuss our heritage.  We suspect that is due to a history of alien abduction.  Oh, and German.  

[gim]

6”2’ here. I have really long arms. Like a 10 foot wingspan.

 

Mostly Swedish heritage. Lutefisk is a native dish and it’s disgusting.

 

 

[DitchPanda]

10 minutes ago, gim said:

6”2’ here. I have really long arms. Like a 10 foot wingspan.

 

Mostly Swedish heritage. Lutefisk is a native dish and it’s disgusting.

 

 

About a month ago a guy I work with gets a call from his dad...he gets off the phone and says oh cool my dad got me a ticket to a Lutefisk feed. I said Oh so your dad hates you?

[MN Fisher]

12 minutes ago, gim said:

Lutefisk is a native dish and it’s disgusting.

100% agreement here - just point me at the Potato Sausage; and don't forget the Lefsa with butter and cinnamon sugar on the side.

[Bird]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I been in them hollers. Seent a wampus cat 

Ha Ha,

Appalachia VA has the lowest rate of bachelor degree's from people 25 and older than any place in the USA......we have bragging rights 😁

[12poundbass]

36 minutes ago, gim said:

Mostly Swedish heritage. Lutefisk is a native dish and it’s disgusting.

I’m Irish and I hate cabbage and I can’t say I’ve ever had corned beef. I was told I’m a disgrace today. 😂

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

I’m Irish and I hate cabbage and I can’t say I’ve ever had corned beef. I was told I’m a disgrace today. 😂

 

Shame, shame on your Irish name!

[gim]

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

I’m Irish and I hate cabbage and I can’t say I’ve ever had corned beef

Not a big fan of the cabbage aka sauerkraut. It’s kinda stinky too.

 

Corned beef is good stuff though.

 

[MN Fisher]

10 minutes ago, gim said:

Not a big fan of the cabbage aka sauerkraut.

Irish cooked cabbage is NOT sauerkraut...that's a German dish. I've had corned beef w/cabbage....not something I'd want every day, but not bad.

[MonsterZero]

6'2"-ish, depending on which convenience store I am walking out of. Mostly British Isles and Germanic Europe.

[tholmes]

6' even. Irish, Scot and Welsh. 

Oh yeah, I love corned beef and cabbage.

 

Tom

[Dwight Hottle]

5'9" shrinking to 5'8" with age. German heritage. 

[BayouSlide]

6-1 1/2, Scot Irish from Ulster on my dad's side and French plus a smidge of Native American (most likely Iroquois) on my mom's.

[river-rat]

 

I'm 5' 11". And I'm 100% Sicilian. 

 

Both sets of my grandparents came into the USA through New Orleans, LA (where I still have a ton of family).

 

My wife and I are leaving for Sicily and Italy next month for an extended visit.  

[Mike L]

8 minutes ago, river-rat said:

 

I'm 5' 11". And I'm 100% Sicilian. 

 

Both sets of my grandparents came into the USA through New Orleans, LA (where I still have a ton of family).

 

My wife and I are leaving for Sicily and Italy next month for an extended visit.  

If you’ve never been there you’ll love it. 
 

It’s like going back in time to a simple way of life every place you go and everything you see. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

[Scott F]

6’3”, mostly Irish, with some English.

[Darth-Baiter]

I'm like a miniature person of Asian decent.  only smaller.

I'm joking.  I am a 5'10" and both my parents are full blooded Chinese.   I can dunk on most of my cousins. 

[FryDog62]

My old college baseball roster guide had me listed at 6 foot and 170 pounds... I don't think either were correct then or now  Funny, my right arm is still a solid inch longer than my left from throwing all those years. Now when I cast the sleeve of my shirt "hikes up" on the right and I get a little one inch stripe of sunburn between my sleeve and fishing glove, but only on that side lol. 

 

Thought forever that we were German/Norwegian, but in the month before my dad passed away he started talking about his heritage from Ireland. My mom scoffed and said he was just getting senile. But he was an only child and his father died at age 34 so no one really knew.

 

So we had DNA testing and sure enough I'm 51% Irish.  I knew there was a reason I never like Sauerkraut or Lutefisk! 

[Kirtley Howe]

I hit a max of 6' 2". After my car accident in 1980 my spine was compressed, and I became 6' 1".  Now that I am older, I am just under 6'. At the rate I am going, by the time I am 80 I expect to be around 5" 10".  I am mostly mutt.....Scottish, English, Native American, and maybe a bit of French.

[N Florida Mike]

I’m 5’11 1/2. 

My wife bought me a DNA test. She’s actually 40-50 % Native American.

I’m 66% Celtic ( Scottish/ Irish/ welsh)

20% Scandinavian , 1% finnish.

The rest is Southern European, and SW asian. I had a great granma that was French, but it didn’t show up in the test.
My first cousin had hers done, and it was very similar to mine. Our family tradition was all Scots/Irish. I had no idea about all the rest of it…